First, you’re lucky I haven’t shared yet with you Jim’s lunchtime photos. Instead of being downtown (where we live) he’s about 20 miles out on a “campus” with ponds et al. So he took pictures on his iPhone of weird-looking ducks and lots of buzzards. Apparently they leave each other alone. Unless he intends to shoot and gut and pluck one and bring it to me on ice to make for dinner, I’m not really interested. Though I might be interested in the Muscovy ducks across the Bayou…. No, I’m an environmentalist and not a hunter. Failed BB-Guns in 9th grade, so I failed as a young Southern Gentlewoman. Ok in my book.
Babies. There’s a new baby down the hall who I’ve not yet met. Another one on the way for which we have a shower this weekend. Newly-married’s down the hall. All kinds of changes going on! While Jim’s at a new job at least for now we plan to stay settled here and he’ll commute. We are checking out a second car and my main concerns are that: Jim, at 6′, 4″ fits and can drive it; the dog has a place that doesn’t get her fur everywhere (though even if I do this Jim will cheat and let her up front on long drives); and a solid place for groceries that keeps them from rolling around and makes it easy for me to put them in my rolling cart, keeps the dog from eating them and allows me to close the back gate without throwing my entire body against it.
Perhaps I should just travel with coolers? Any thoughts would be appreciated. We’re thinking of something like the Toyota Highlander but when the back seat folds flat that’s where the dog would go and also groceries.
I’ve always easily put up our groceries in the trunk in our old Accord, even with the dog in the back seat it’s not a problem because she can’t eat a raw steak out of the bag when it’s in the trunk. Not yet, anyway. She’s an inventive pup, though. Dee
Cooking with Dee 